I dreamt i crawled on top of you and kissed your hips, one at a time, my lips a smolder. i straddled your waist and pressed both shaking hands against your torso. spongy, like an old tree on the forest floor. i push and your flesh sinks inwardly, collapsing with decay, a soft shushing sound. a yawning hole where your organs should be. maggots used to live here until your own poison killed them off. i laid my cheek into the loam and three little mushrooms brushed over my eyelid. peat, decomposing matter, all of it, whatever you wish to call it, rested in the cavity of your chest. and there i planted seeds in the hopes something good would come out of you. Taylor Rhodes
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The meaning of this poem is that the earth has become the place where people who are dead lie. The people lie in the ground, without any lives to lead. They are just lying there, sleeping. And that sounds like a great idea to put them there.

However, it is not that simple. People die in this story because they have lived their lives with bitterness and brought nothing but destruction in their wake. If you put someone in the ground because of what they have done, then you are doing the same thing with the person in the poem.

They will be dead in no time at all, and you cannot take responsibility for that way of thinking.

Source: Calloused: A Field Journal

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